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Pãozinho

Name: Pãozinho
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Mozambique
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 5g Dry yeast; 2 tsp Sugar; 1 tsp Salt; 260ml Water; 1 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Butter

Snack

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 12

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Little rolls, crisp outside and fluffy inside — Mozambican bread of Portuguese heritage.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Pãozinho are small round rolls baked every morning at Mozambique's street-corner bakeries, a bread culture rooted in the Portuguese colonial era. They're eaten for breakfast with butter or jam and also used for prego sandwiches filled with grilled meat, egg, and piri-piri sauce.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Maputo morning, fresh little rolls come out of a bakery oven one after another as commuters fill paper bags with them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 12)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 5g
Sugar 2 tsp
Salt 1 tsp
Water 260ml
Vegetable Oil 1 tbsp
Butter To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Combine the bread flour, yeast, sugar, salt, lukewarm water, and oil and knead 10 minutes.
Place in a bowl and let rise 1 hour until doubled.
Divide into 12, shape into balls, arrange on a baking sheet, and proof 30 minutes.
Mist the tops and slash with a knife.
Bake at 220°C for 15 minutes until golden and serve with butter.

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